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Seminar Schedule

Welcome to the CALCM weekly seminar series!

Spring 2009 • Fall 2008 • Spring 2008 • Fall 2007 •

Spring 2007 • Fall 2006 • Spring 2006 • Fall 2005 •

Spring 2005 • Fall 2004 • Spring 2004 • Fall 2003 •

Spring 2003 • Fall 2002 • Spring 2002 • Fall 2001

Spring 2009

Please refer to the new CALCM pages for upcoming seminars!

Fall 2008

Date	Title	Speaker
September 23	PROTOFLEX: FPGA-Accelerated Instrumentation	Michael Papamichael
September 30	The B3RISC: A Flexible FPGA-optimized Microprocessor for Multicore OS Research	Eric Chung
October 7	No seminar
October 14	Making Enterprise Computing "Green": Energy-Efficiency Challenges in Enterprise Data Centers	Thomas Wenisch University of Michigan
October 21
October 27	Trading Off Cache Capacity for Reliability to Enable Low Voltage Operation Intel Research Seminar Monday 4:30pm, 4th floor CIC	Chris Wilkerson Intel
November 4	A Low-Radix and Low-Diameter 3D Interconnection Network Design	Jun Yang University of Pittsburgh
November 11	No seminar - Qualifying exams
November 18	No seminar - Qualifying exams
November 25	No seminar - Thanksgiving
December 2	R-NUCA: Data Placement in Distributed Shared Caches	Nikos Hardavellas

Spring 2008

Date	Title	Speaker
February 12	Intra-chip Memory Streaming	Mike Ferdman
February 19	Compression Scheme of Log-Based Architectures	Theodoros Strigkos
February 26	Secure Computing on Untrusted Computer Systems	Arvind Seshadri
March 4	Parallelizing Dynamic Information Flow Tracking	Olatunji Ruwase
March 11	No seminar - Spring Break
March 18	Understanding and Visualizing Full Systems with Data Flow Tomography	Eric Chung
March 25	Spatio-Temporal Memory Streaming	Stephen Somogyi
April 1	Understanding Application Performance	Marty Itzkowitz Sun Microsystems
April 8	Data Pump and Processing Architecture	Qian Yu
April 15	No seminar - please attend the Maurice Herlihy's Parallel Thinking Seminar at 3:00pm, 4th floor CIC
April 22	No seminar - Qualifying exam week
April 29	Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring	Shimin Chen Intel Research
June 2	The Bulk Multicore Architecture	Josep Torrellas UIUC

Fall 2007

Date	Title	Speaker
September 4	A New Microarchitecture Paradigm for High-Performance General Purpose Processor Synthesis	Eriko Nurvitadhi
September 11	Detecting Emerging Wearout Faults	Jared Smolens
September 18	To Share or Not To Share	Ryan Johnson
September 25	Implementation of Lucas-Kanade's Optical Flow Algorithm on Graphics Processors using NVIDIA CUDA	Kevin Biswas
October 2	Accelerating Architectural-level, Full-System Multiprocessor Simulations using FPGAs	Eric Chung
October 9	Low-overhead Byzantine Fault-tolerant Storage	James Hendricks
October 16	Near-Optimal Instruction Selection for Resource Constrained Embedded Architectures	Dave Koes
October 23	Fast, Full-System, Cycle-Accurate Computer Simulators via Parallelization	Derek Chiou UT-Austin
October 30	Initial Steps Toward Ubiquitous Biomedical Implantable System-on-Chip – An Architectural Perspective	Allen Cheng University of Pittsburgh
November 6	Automatic Library Generation for Signal Transforms	Yevgen Voronenko
November 13	No seminar - ISCA preparation week
November 20	Multi-bit Error Tolerant Caches Using Two-Dimensional Error Coding	Jangwoo Kim
November 27	Current Research Talk	Sebastian Herbert
December 4	Analysis and Mitigation of the Impact of Process Variations on 3D Microarchitectures	Siddharth Garg

Spring 2007

Date	Title	Speaker
January 19	Improving Superscalar Efficiency with Mini-Graph Processing 11:00 am, HH 1112	Anne Bracy University of Pennsylvania
January 30	Improving the Simulation and Programmability of Future Multiprocessor Systems	Thomas Wenisch
February 6	//TRACE: Parallel Trace Replay with Approximate Causal Events	Mike Mesnier
February 13	Performance Counter Super-resolution	Roland Wunderlich
February 20	Temporal Memory Streaming	Thomas Wenisch
February 27	Comprehensive Detection of Errors in Multithreaded Memory Systems HH 1112	Dan Sorin Duke University
March 6	Innovating with OpenSPARC	David Weaver Sun Microsystems
March 13	No seminar - Spring Break
March 20	No seminar - please attend David Patterson's Katayanagi Prize Lecture 4:00 pm, WH 7500
March 27	System-level Timing Analysis and Optimization for Hardware Compilation	Girish Venkataramani
April 3	Eliminating the Store Queue	Stephen Somogyi
April 10	MultiMap: Preserving disk locality for multidimensional datasets	Minglong Shao
April 11	Multiprocessor Architectures for Programmability Faculty Candidate Talk, noon, HH 1112	Luis Ceze UIUC
April 12	Towards the Ideal On-Chip Interconnect Fabric ECE Seminar, 4:30pm Thursday, Scaife Hall	Li-Shiuan Peh Princeton University
April 16	Adaptive Predicated Execution Faculty Candidate Talk, noon, HH 1112	Hyesoon Kim UT-Austin
April 17	Last-Touch Correlated Data Streaming	Mike Ferdman
April 24	No seminar - Qualifying exam week
May 1	Program Generation for the All-Pairs Shortest Path Problem	Sungchul Han
May 11	Software Defined Acoustic Modems Noon, HH 1112	Ryan Kastner UC Santa Barbara
June 5	Quantifying the Effectiveness of Testing via Efficient Residual Path Profiling Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar 10:30 am – noon, Suite 410 CIC (4th floor)	Trishul Chilimbi Microsoft Research
June 18	Universal Cache Miss Equations for the Memory Hierarchy Joint CALCM/DB Seminar 4:30 pm, Wean Hall 7220	Y.C. Tay National University of Singapore

Fall 2006

Date	Title	Speaker
September 19	Optimal Scheduling and Register Allocation for Inner Kernels	Yevgen Voronenko
September 21	An Actor/dataflow Programming Model for Platform FPGAs ECE Seminar 4:30 pm, 125 Scaife Hall	Dave Parlour Xilinx
September 22	Exploiting Multicore Architecture for Secure Revivable Services Intel Research Pittsburgh Seminar 1:00 pm, Suite 410 CIC (4th floor)	Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee Georgia Institute of Technology
September 26	Distributed Caching in the Tartan Reconfigurable Fabric	Mahim Mishra
October 3	RAS Design Practices in Commercial Microprocessors HH 1112	Nhon Quach AMD
October 10	A Self-Checkpointing Microprocessor Based on Magnetoelectronic Devices	Nick Carter UIUC
October 17	Using Computer Architecture and Code Optimization Techniques to Create Fast and Effective Data Compressors	Martin Burtscher Cornell University
October 24	No seminar - Midsemester break
October 31	Leveraging Protocol Knowledge in Slack Matching	Girish Venkataramani
November 7	Staged Database Server Design for Emerging Computer Architectures	Ippokratis Pandis
November 14	No seminar - Qualifying exam week
November 21	Managing Distributed, Shared L2 Caches through OS-Level Page Allocation	Sangyeun Cho University of Pittsburgh
November 28	Building a Synthesizable x86 for FPGA Emulation	Eriko Nurvitadhi
December 6	Reunion: Complexity-Effective Multicore Redundancy	Jared Smolens

Spring 2006

Date	Title	Speaker
January 31	PROTOFLEX: Co-Simulation for Component-wise FPGA Emulator Development	Eric Chung
February 7	Spatial Memory Streaming	Stephen Somogyi
February 14	Redesigning Database Hash Join Algorithms in Light of CPU Cache Prefetching	Shimin Chen
February 21	Modeling the Global Critical Path of Highly Concurrent Systems	Girish Venkataramani
February 28	High-Performance Reliability, Availability and Serviceability for Scalable Memory Systems	Jangwoo Kim
March 7	Big Wins With Small Application-aware Software-managed Caches	Julio Lopez
March 14	No seminar - Spring break
March 20	Heterogeneous Multi-Core Computing Faculty Candidate Talk 1:30pm, NSH 3305	Rakesh Kumar University of California, San Diego
March 21	Evaluating Spatial Computation For Whole Program Execution using the Tartan Architecture	Mahim Mishra
March 22	Nanowire-based Computing Systems Faculty Candidate Talk 10:00am, NSH 3305	Andre DeHon California Institute of Technology
March 28	Addressing Variability in GALS Architectures	Sebastian Herbert
April 4	No Seminar
April 11	Towards a More Principled Compiler	Dave Koes
April 18	Understanding Failure at Scale	Bianca Schroeder
April 25	Automatic Generation of Custom Hardware for DSP Transforms	Peter Milder
May 1	AEGIS: Architectural EnGine for Information Security Faculty Candidate Talk 10:00am, HH D-210	Edward Suh Pufco Inc.
May 1	Rethinking Processor and System Architecture Faculty Candidate Talk 11:00am, NSH 3305	Steve Swanson University of Washington
May 1	An Overview of the Singularity Project POP Seminar 3:30pm, NSH 1305	David Tarditi Microsoft Research
May 4	Log-based Architectures SDI/LCS/CALCM/Intel Seminar Noon, CIC 2101	Phil Gibbons and Mike Kozuch Intel Research Pittsburgh
May 16	LogTM: Log-based Transactional Memory 4:00pm, HH 1112	Mark Hill
May 18	Optimizing Program Locality Using Hot Data Streams 4:00pm, HH D-210	Trishul Chilimbi
May 30	Runahead Execution: A Power-efficient Mechanism for Tolerating Long Main Memory Latencies 4:00pm, HH 1112	Onur Mutlu

Fall 2005

Date	Title	Speaker
September 6	Optimizing MMM for a DSP	Roland Wunderlich
September 13	Store-Ordered Streaming of Shared Memory	Thomas Wenisch
September 20	Faculty Candidate Talk 3:30pm, HH 1112	Franz Franchetti
September 26	Automatic Verification of Sequential Consistency for Unbounded Addresses and Data Values (10:30am in CIC 2101)	Alan J. Hu University of British Columbia
October 6	Transactions: A New Approach to Programming and Prototyping Parallel Systems Joint CALCM/SDI/Intel seminar) (12:00 at Intel Research Pittsburgh)	Kunle Olukotun Stanford University
October 10	RegionScout and Checkpoint Prediction (4:30pm)	Andreas Moshovos University of Toronto
October 11	DBMbench: Fast and Accurate Database Workload Representation on Modern Microarchitecture	Minglong Shao
October 18	Fingerprinting: Low-overhead Error Detection on Commodity Microprocessors	Jared Smolens
October 25	HP/Tandem NonStop Systems: Then and Now	Brian Gold
November 1	Global History Buffer	Mike Ferdman
November 8	Developing with Flexus	Thomas Wenisch
November 15	No seminar - Qualifying exam week
November 22	No seminar - ISCA preparation week
November 29	The Era of Tera Joint SCS/ECE Technology Leader Seminar (4:00pm in the Singleton Room, Roberts Hall)	Pat Gelsinger Intel
December 6	Understanding the Performance of Concurrent Error Detecting Superscalar Microarchitectures	Jared Smolens

Spring 2005

Date	Title	Speaker
January 13	Designing Commercial Servers and A Multiprocessor Flight Data Recorder (joint seminar with ECE)	Mark Hill University of Wisconsin
January 20	Integrating High-Bandwidth Networking into Modern Architectures (joint seminar with ECE)	Steve Reinhardt University of Michigan
January 25	Memory Coherence Activity Prediction in Commercial Workloads	Stephen Somogyi
February 1	An Empirical Study of Data Speculation Use on the Intel Itanium 2 Processor	Jose Baiocchi University of Pittsburgh
February 4	Single Chip Multiprocessors: The Next Wave of Computer Architecture (special date/time/location at Pitt)	Guri Sohi University of Wisconsin
February 8	No Seminar
February 15	No Seminar
February 22	Microarchitecture Optimizations for Exploiting MLP	Eric Chung
March 1	No Seminar
March 15	A Fully Associative Software-Managed Cache Design	Brian Gold
March 22	No Seminar
March 29	StagedDB: Designing Database Servers for Modern Hardware	Stavros Harizopoulos
April 1	Can Parallel Computing Finally Impact Mainstream Computing? (10:30am at Intel Research Pittsburgh)	Uzi Vishkin University of Maryland
April 5	Clustered Multi-Threading: A Platform for Integrated Dynamic Thermal and Reliability Management	David Albonesi Cornell University
April 6	Network-on-Chip - towards communication-centric System-on-Chip design	Tobias Bjerregaard Technical University of Denmark
April 12	Unbounded Transactional Memory	Vasilis Liaskovitis
April 19	Constructing a Memory Access Network Architecture for Application Specific Hardware (special location: HH A-306)	Girish Venkataramani
April 26	Liberating Threads from Sequential Programs	David August Princeton University
May 3	Formal Loop Merging For Signal Transforms	Yevgen Voronenko

Fall 2004

Date	Title	Speaker
September 1	A Programming Language for Ad-hoc Networks of Mobile Devices (joint seminar with CSSI)	Uli Kremer
September 7	TurboSmarts: They've gone to plaid!	Thomas Wenisch Roland Wunderlich
September 21	Transactional Coherence & Consistency	Christos Kozyrakis
September 28	No Seminar
October 5	Fingerprinting: Bounding Soft-Error Detection Latency and Bandwidth	Jared Smolens
October 12	Active Emulation: Expanding Evaluation Context via Outward Replications of Experimental Design Impacts	Eriko Nurvitadhi
October 19	New Additions to the CASH Compiler	Tibi Chelcea
October 26	No Seminar
November 2	Speculative Lock Elision: Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution	Eric Chung
November 8	Merrimac - Supercomputing with Streams	Mattan Erez Stanford
November 16	No Seminar - ISCA Preparation Week
November 23	Distributed Parity: Protecting Shared Memory	Jangwoo Kim
November 30	Efficient Resource Sharing in Concurrent Error Detecting Superscalar Microarchitectures	Jared Smolens
December 7	Last-Touch Correlated Data Streaming	Mike Ferdman

Spring 2004

Date	Title	Speaker
January 27	The Effects of Architecture on Security, and Vice-versa	James Hendricks
February 3	The Reality and Promise of Reconfigurable Computing in Digital Signal Processing	David Parlour Xilinx
February 10	no seminar
February 17	On the Energy Efficiency of Computation Engines	Mihai Budiu
February 24	Speculative Parallelism in Database Systems	Chris Colohan
March 2	Compiler Optimization of Memory-Resident Value Communication Between Speculative Threads	Antonia Zhai
March 9	Spring Break - no seminar
March 16	no seminar
March 23	Accurate and Complexity-Effective Spatial Pattern Prediction	Chi Chen
March 30	Modeling and FPGA Prototyping of an Itanium Architecture	Roland Wunderlich
April 6	STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing	Stavros Harizopoulos
April 13	Defect Tolerance at the End of the Roadmap	Mahim Mishra
April 20	Register Allocation for Irregular Architectures	Dave Koes
April 27	Hybrid Sequential-Spatial Computers with Unified Instruction Set Architectures	Brian Van Essen Ben Ylvisaker
May 11	Soft Errors in Microprocessors	Shubu Mukherjee Intel

Fall 2003

Date	Title	Speaker
September 16	DBMbench: Microbenchmarking Database Systems in a Small, yet Real World (joint seminar with Intel)	Minglong Shao
September 18	Network Interface Architecture and Performance (joint seminar with SDI/LCS)	Vijay S. Pai
September 23	Near-Optimal Bitline Precharging in High-Performance Nanoscale CMOS Caches	Se-Hyun Yang
October 9	Bluespec: Why Chip Design Can't Be Left to EE's (joint seminar with ECE)	Arvind
October 16	Sub-lithographic Semiconductor Computing Systems (joint seminar with ECE)	Andre Dehon
October 21	Spatial Computation	Mihai Budiu
October 28	Programmer Specified Pointer Independence	Dave Koes
November 6	Coarse-Grained Configurable Architectures (joint seminar with ECE)	Carl Ebling
November 20	Things CPU Architects Need To Think About (joint seminar with ECE)	Bob Colwell
November 25	Reliability Through Architecture: Fault Tolerant Systems for the 21st Century	Brian Gold
December 2	Full system simulation: Simulating a $2M commercial server on a $2K PC?	Jangwoo Kim

Spring 2003

Date	Title	Speaker
January 28	HASTE: Hybrid Architectures with a Single Transformable Executable	Benjamin A. Levine
February 4	no seminar
February 11	no seminar
February 18	Probabilistic Logics and the Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Components	p. Stanley-Marbell
February 25	no seminar
February 27	EV8: The Post-ultimate Alpha	Joel Emer Intel
March 4	Timekeeping in the Memory System: Predicting and Optimizing Memory Behavior	Nikos Hardavellas
March 11	High Performance Microarchitectural Fault Tolerance	Jared Smolens
March 14	Low-Overhead Selective Re-Execution in the Polymorphic TRIPS Processor	Doug Burger
March 18	Increasing Memory Parallelism with a Spatial Compiler	Mihai Budiu
March 25	no seminar - Spring Break
April 1	Store-Ordered Streaming: Cooperative Mechanisms to Eliminate Coherent Read Misses in a DSM	Stephen Somogyi
April 3	Token Coherence: Enabling Faster Multiprocessor Servers by Decoupling Performance and Correctness (joint seminar with SCS)	Milo Martin
April 8	no seminar
April 15	no seminar
April 22	Tamper-Resistant Platforms for Secure Systems (joint seminar with C3S)	Srinivas Devadas
April 24	Extracting Thread-level Parallelism on Simultaneous Multithreaded Processors (joint seminar with ECE)	Susan Eggers
April 29	Energy-Driven Hardware Adaptations for Multimedia Applications	Sarita Adve
May 1	Enterprise IT Trends and Outlook	Dalibor Vrsalovic Intel
May 8	SMARTS: Accelerating Microarchitecture Simulation via Rigorous Statistical Sampling	Tom Wenisch

Fall 2002

Date	Title	Speaker
September 17	Compiler Optimization of Scalar Value Communication Between Speculative Threads	Antonia Zhai
September 24	Clustered Architectures with GALS Clocking Schemes	Katrina Zwicker
October 1
October 8	Factors Influencing the Performance of a CPU-RFU Hybrid Architecture	Girish Venkataramani
October 15	Stream Processing	Bill Dally
October 22	The Non-linear Path from Ideas to Silicon	Ed Ghrochowski
October 29	Flexus: A Line-Usage-Conscious Low Power Cache Memory	Chi Chen
October 31	The Princeton ZebraNet Project: Power-Aware Computing meets Biocomplexity Research	Margaret Martonosi
November 5	Breaking the Memory Wall!	Babak Falsafi
November 12	Fractal Prefetching B+-Trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance	Shimin Chen
December 3	Adventures in Computer Architecture: Lattice Gas Automata	Andreas Nowatzyk
December 5	Exploiting Speculative Multithreading	Josep Torrellas
December 10	Transient-fault recovery via Simultaneous Multithreading	T. N. Vijaykumar

Spring 2002

Date	Title	Speaker
January 15	An Organizational Meeting	Babak Falsafi
January 24 Thursday @ HH D210	A Joint Seminar with SDI/LCS rePLay : A Hardware Framework for Dynamic Optimization	Sanjay Patel University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
January 29 Talk #1	A Hardware Architecture for Dynamic Performance and Energy Adaptation	Phillip Stanley-Marbell
January 29 Talk #2	Exploiting Choice in Resizable Cache Design to Optimize Deep-Submicron Processor Energy-Delay	Se-Hyun Yang
February 7 Thursday 2:30pm	Power: The Next Frontier	Ronny Ronen Intel MRL
February 12	Towards a power efficient trace-cache based microarchitecture	Emil Talpes
February 19	Scalable Defect Tolerance for Molecular Electronics	Mahim Mishra
March 5	The Pentium® 4 Processor	Douglas M. Carmean Intel Corporation
March 12	ASPLOS deadline	no seminar
March 19 3:30pm	ASH: A Substrate for Scalable Architectures	Mihai Budiu
March 26	Efficient Representations and Abstractions for Quantifying and Exploiting Data Reference Locality	Thomas Wenisch
April 2	Spring Break	no seminar
April 9	Transient Fault Detection and Recovery in Superscalar Processors	Joydeep Ray
April 16	Accelerating Microarchitecture Preformance Simulations	Roland Wunderlich & Thomas Wenisch
April 23	Photo Session	no seminar
April 30	Power and Performance Evaluation of Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous Processors	Diana Marculescu

Fall 2001

Date	Title	Speaker
October 5	A Microprocessor Design for 2014	Doug Burger U. of Texas
October 18 12- 1 p.m. Newell Simon Hall 3305	Moore's Law: Is it Time to Just Give Up and Work on Easier Problems?	Yale Patt U. of Texas
TBA	Soft-Error Tolerant Superscalar	Joydeep Ray